Lionel Sanders

0 Lionel Sanders
Lionel Sanders at Ironman 70.3 Mont-Tremblant, 2018
Personal information
Date of birth	22nd February 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Harrow, Ontario, Canada
societies
successes
2013-2019	24 × winners Ironman 70.3
2014	4th place Ironman 70.3 World Championship
2014-2017	4 × Ironman winner
2016	World best time Ironman race
2017	ITU world champion triathlon long distance
2017, 2018	2 × Winner Challenge World Championships
2017	Second Ironman World Championship
status
active

Lionel Sanders (born February 22, 1988 in Harrow ) is a Canadian triathlete . He is a multiple Ironman winner (2014-2017), ITU world champion in the long distance triathlon (2017), runner-up in the Ironman Hawaii (2017) and is included in the best list of triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

After a difficult youth struggling with drugs, Lionel Sanders decided to change his life in 2009. He set himself the goal of starting an Ironman race (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) and successfully finished the Ironman Louisville in August 2010 .

In May 2011 he started at the Duathlon World Championship and finished 27th in Spain. After a few victories in the triathlon middle distance in 2014, he was one of the favorites at the world championship and he finished fourth in September.

Ironman victory 2014

In November 2014 he started his second start on the Ironman distance at Ironman Florida for the first time as a professional and the strong running Sanders was able to complete the race, which had to be carried out without the swimming distance due to the weather, with a marathon time of 2:44:12 h win. In November 2015, he achieved his second Ironman victory at Ironman Arizona and a personal best of 7:58:22 h on the long distance.

World best time in an Ironman race in 2016

At the Ironman Arizona in November 2016, Lionel Sanders set a new course record with his winning time of 7:44:29 h and the fastest time ever achieved in an Ironman race. This time was undercut in May 2017 by the British Tim Don at the Ironman Brasil .

In April 2017, he was able to successfully defend his title from the previous year in California and achieve his 15th victory in an Ironman 70.3 race.

World Champion Long Distance Triathlon 2017

In August 2017 he won the title at the ITU World Championship on the long-distance triathlon. In October he finished second at his third start in Hawaii, after having been in the lead for a long time and being overtaken by eventual winner Patrick Lange just a few kilometers from the finish line .

In December 2019, he achieved a Canadian double success with Paula Findlay at the Challenge Daytona women.

Lionel Sanders lives with his partner in Hamilton, Ontario . He is trained by David Tilbury-Davis.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Homepage of Lionel Sanders
• Lionel Sanders' profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on February 21, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From Substance Abuse to Standout Pro: Lionel Sanders (July 17, 2014)
2. ↑ Ironman Florida: Sanders zum First, van Vlerken with a hat trick ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (November 2, 2014) 
3. ↑ Lionel Sanders can swim! (April 3, 2017)
4. ↑ LIONEL SANDERS AND PAULA FINDLAY ARE THE 2019 CHALLENGE DAYTONA WINNERS (December 15, 2019)
5. ↑ The Championship: Lucy Charles, Lionel Sanders repeat in Samorin (June 4, 2018)
6. ↑ IRONMAN 70.3 PUCON: SANDERS THE SOLE ENTREPRENEUR IN CHILE (January 14, 2018)
7. ↑ DREITZ WINNING, SANDERS OUTSTANDING STEIN (August 14, 2016)
8. ↑ Ironman 70.3: Lionel Sanders again ( memento of the original from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (August 11, 2014) 
9. ↑ Ironman Louisville 2010: Max Longrée is back with 3rd place